Archive

198 posts, 2004–2016.

2016

January 18, 2016NullPointerExceptions in Xerces-J

2014

April 23, 2014Working with development servers
April 16, 2014Bad Password Policies

2013

September 23, 2013A New Chapter

2011

January 29, 2011Multiple Crimes

2010

March 17, 2010Letter to my MP regarding the Digital Economy Bill
March 7, 2010Mod_fastcgi and external PHP
February 25, 2010Reducing Coupling between modules

2009

December 22, 2009Maven and Grails 1.2 snapshot
December 8, 2009Conversations regarding printers
October 13, 2009Tarballs explained
October 11, 2009mod_proxy or mod_jk
October 10, 2009Blog Copyright
October 10, 2009Name-Based HTTPS
September 1, 2009Setting up gitosis on Jaunty
August 18, 2009Puppetmaster with nginx and Mongrel on Ubuntu
August 6, 2009Reviewing svn up changes
July 24, 2009Efficient Finds
June 15, 2009Copying files with netcat
June 10, 2009Table sizes in PostgreSQL
April 10, 2009Check maven dependencies
April 10, 2009How not to configure your DNS
March 14, 2009Fast Servlet development with Maven and Jetty
February 15, 2009MySQL silently truncating your data: Update
February 15, 2009MySQL silently truncating your data
January 25, 2009Subversion and "(502 Bad Gateway) in response to COPY request" errors
January 21, 2009DBI boilerplate code

2008

November 26, 2008Vim Syntax Highlighting for Puppet
October 24, 2008Setting up Ubuntu PXE booting
October 2, 2008Slaves *and* Caching
August 20, 2008Asymmetric Routing and Flow Sessions in JUNOS ES
July 12, 2008Rebuilding a RAID array
June 10, 2008index sambaSID sub
June 9, 2008Compiled Regexes in Spamassassin 3.2
May 22, 2008Apache 2.2 auth_ldap config
May 1, 2008Not like not like not like
April 30, 2008Not like not like not like
April 28, 2008User Administration under PostgreSQL 8.3
April 26, 2008Upgrading to latest Pyblosxom
April 24, 2008Violating Perl Module Namespaces
April 24, 2008Photography In Public Areas Early Day Motion
April 17, 2008Using In-memory tarballs with Archive::Tar
April 17, 2008Boilerplate code for a perl class
April 3, 2008InnoDB being silently disabled
March 31, 2008Daylight Saving under Debian
March 29, 2008Bad Decompression Errors in OpenSSL 0.9.8a
March 27, 2008Installing java non-interactively
March 12, 2008User friendly names in warnquota
March 4, 2008SCIM ate my shift-space
February 17, 2008Ceci n'est pas un spam
February 5, 2008Outsmarting dpkg's conffile handling
January 24, 2008Phisher aren't even trying
January 24, 2008Child-friendly pasting in vim
January 14, 2008ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can't create table './Database/Table.frm' (errno: 150)

2007

December 22, 2007BREAKING NEWS
July 25, 2007SIP/Desktop Integration
June 13, 2007Atomic in-place rewriting of files with backup in perl
June 5, 2007Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
March 26, 2007Sumsung E900 or D900 horror stories
February 22, 2007Comment Counts in Feeds and Updated Entries
February 18, 2007Ogg Player Redux
February 15, 2007Old Style Firefox Tabs
February 6, 2007This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
February 5, 2007Last.fm Events in Google Calendar
January 30, 2007Pension issues
January 28, 2007Lazy Class Infrastructure
January 26, 2007Eddie 0.2 RSS and Atom Parser
January 25, 2007Speedy Java 6
January 25, 2007Ogg Player Recommendations and Upcoming Gigs.
January 9, 2007Reason 82973 why MySQL is a toy
January 3, 2007UK Software Patent Petition

2006

December 29, 2006Network Troubleshooting Article
December 20, 2006Tomcat boggle
December 19, 2006Backing up PostgreSQL
November 23, 2006Yum Bitching
July 26, 2006Use Atom
July 24, 2006Strict feed parsers are useless
July 19, 2006I feel dirty
July 19, 2006Killall sshd considered stupid
June 27, 2006How Not To Implement Spam Filtering (and web forms)
June 27, 2006Intelligently Designed
June 23, 2006Where Do You Want To Go?
June 18, 2006Markable InputStreams
June 18, 2006New Delivery
June 17, 2006Invalid Characters in Encoding with JAVA
June 11, 2006Class::DBI performance
June 7, 2006Converting Epoch Time values To Timestamps
June 7, 2006Oracle 10.2.0.1 Instant Client hanging?
June 1, 2006Tidying Up
June 1, 2006Join Map Ord Split
May 31, 2006Init(1) Causing zombies
May 31, 2006Laptop Harddisk Failure
May 31, 2006Eddie RSS and Atom Feed Parser
May 26, 2006Makes you look big *and* clever
May 25, 2006Pathological Date Parser in Java
May 20, 2006Choosing Member Functions at Runtime in Java
May 19, 2006IO::Handle
May 17, 2006The case against backticks
May 10, 2006Oracle User Sessions
May 4, 2006Gnome Terminal and Character Encodings
April 28, 2006Dealing with blog spam
April 23, 2006Installing Oracle XE on Debian
April 22, 2006Empty elements in XSLT
April 15, 2006Separation of Church and State
April 10, 2006Creating a Certificate Authority
March 19, 2006Atom feed and Planet Debian
March 19, 2006PostgreSQL User Administration
March 15, 2006Comment Form Attack
March 14, 2006Notice Periods in UK
March 14, 2006(In)sane
March 13, 2006LDAP Basics
March 9, 2006Setting your terminal title in bash
March 8, 2006Bash Prompt
March 8, 2006Privoxy Crack
March 8, 2006Perl open()
March 3, 2006Writing Robust Shell Scripts Article
March 1, 2006IO::File->open() is broken
February 21, 2006Marmaduke Duke
February 20, 2006Geek Girl
February 20, 2006Slef-Harming
February 18, 2006"That's not fair!"
February 16, 2006A Bit of a Confusing Morning
February 14, 2006Valentines Day
February 7, 2006Perl Style and readability
February 7, 2006OMFG Google evil
February 5, 2006SQL::Translator
February 3, 2006UK Acts online
January 31, 2006Libelous
January 26, 2006New Layout and Working Comments
January 26, 2006Bad Shell: Lazyweb replies
January 25, 2006Bad Shell Scripts
January 22, 2006Web logs considered disturbing
January 19, 2006Mozilla causing XSS in Livejournal
January 19, 2006Unintended Consequences of Technology
January 19, 2006I had an epiphany in the shower
January 10, 2006Fists Of Intern Fury

2005

December 7, 2005Compensation claimant who faked injury gets 14 days' jail
December 2, 2005OOP Strikes Back
December 1, 2005Return of Accessors vs. public member variables
November 30, 2005Accessors vs. public member variables
November 16, 2005Cult
November 15, 2005Minimising service downtime during upgrades
October 14, 2005New Irssi packages
September 25, 2005God help us
September 23, 2005Million Dead
September 4, 2005Oops
August 3, 2005Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
July 11, 2005As Hot As HEL
July 10, 2005Body scan machines to be used on Tube passengers
July 10, 2005One HEL of a hangover
July 9, 2005In some kind of HEL
June 24, 2005Indian Call centres considered harmful
May 26, 2005GUADEC 6
April 28, 2005Michael Howard on refugees
April 28, 2005WTF? part 2
April 19, 2005Rarrrr
April 18, 2005WTF?
March 31, 2005Donnie Dark - Director's Cut
March 28, 2005Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
March 26, 2005Request for testers
March 23, 2005irssi-text-0.8.9-3
March 22, 2005Reading Tickets
March 22, 2005Blowin' in the wind
March 16, 2005Spring is here
March 16, 2005New irssi-text package
March 2, 2005Camden
March 2, 2005Camden
February 26, 2005Norwich, Work and Brussels
February 10, 2005Biffy Clyro and Hell is for Heroes
February 8, 2005Welsh rugby fan cuts off testicles after side wins
February 3, 2005I've got soul ...
January 5, 2005Tax Office Blues
January 4, 2005Redundancy

2004

December 15, 2004Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite
December 12, 2004Dear Father Christmas
December 10, 2004Aaaaarrrggghhhhh
December 10, 2004Moving the Goalposts
December 4, 2004Livejournal Sucks. No really it does.
December 4, 2004mutt -f =debian-devel -e "push Dhot-babe<enter>"
December 1, 2004Argh, my eye
November 15, 2004Househunting Part 1
November 15, 2004The dangers of relying on others
November 8, 2004New Job
October 22, 2004Keane - Hopes and Fears
September 30, 2004Donnie Darko
August 14, 2004Mushrooms
August 14, 2004Leeds
August 14, 2004Please enter a valid email address
August 13, 2004Doom 3 Movie?
August 2, 2004AFK
July 25, 2004Funky map
June 27, 2004Linux 2.6 and XP dual booting
June 27, 2004Peer Pressure
June 23, 2004Hopes Of The States
June 23, 2004Reuben - Racecar is Racecar Backwards
June 19, 2004Pissup in a brewery: 2, Morning after: 0
June 15, 2004Alpha Debian-installer
June 14, 2004Elections